Churn-power.



No. 725,597. PATENTBD APR. 1.4, 1903! F. F. SIMS.

CHURN POWER.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 28, 1903.

NO MODEL.

TATEs UNTTED .ATENT ()EFICE.

FOREST FRANCIS s1Ms, oE sT. BETHLEHEM, TENNEssE AssIGNoR OF ONE- HALF ToL. E. WEBB, OF sT. BETHLEHEM, TENNESSEE.

CHURN-POWER.

srEorEroATmH forming part of Letters Patent No. 725,597, dated April14,1903.

I Application filed February 28,1903. Serial No. 145,580. (No model.)

T aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FOREST FRANCIS SIMS, a citizen of the United States,residing at St. Bethlehem, in the county of Montgomery and StateofTennessee, have invented a new and useful Churn-Power, of which thefollowing is a specification.

My invention relates to churns, and more particularly to that classinwhich is employed to a rotatable dasher attached to a staff, which staffis given a rapid vibratory movement by means of an encircling belt, thefree ends of which are attached to an operating lever or handle. Theobject of the invention is to-produce a churn which is easy to operate,simple in construction, and cheap to manufacture; and to these ends myinvention consists in the details of construction, as hereinafter morefully described and claimed, and as illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings, in which- Figure l is a side elevation with one side of theframework or casing removed. Fig. 2 is a vertical section on line 2 2 ofFig. 1 looking toward the operating-lever. Fig. 3 is a horizontalsectional view taken on line 3 3 of Fig. 1; and Fig. 4 'is an enlargeddetail view of "the 'dasher-staif socket, upper end of the dasher, andsecuring-pin.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, the numeral 1 designatesthe base or platform of the supporting-framework. 2 designates the sidesor standards thereof, and 3 p the transverse top bar of the framework,;3 5 which is extended forward beyond the front the top and parallel tothe top or bar 3. Said.

rail. is enlarged at its forward end 6, so as to form the shoulders 7,which project beyond the side thereof and are adapted to abut againstthe frontedges 8 of the upper portion of the standards 2, as shown inFig. 3, when secured in position and is provided in its extremeforwardend with a bifurcation 9.

Secured between the upper portions of the standards 2 and extending tothe rear thereof for some distance is a central longitudinal partitionor strip 10, and said strip is enlarged to form shoulders 11, which abutagainst the rear edges 12 of the standards 2, and pivoted 5 5 betweenits ends, as at 13, and to the rear extremity of the partition or strip10 is a lever 14, provided with operating-handles 15. Said lever is alsoprovided near each handle with a transverse aperture 16, and the forwardend of the partition 10 is rounded or beveled, as at 17.

The numeral 18 designates a dasher-staff, which is provided atits upperend with a head or button 19, and its lower end is enlarged, as

at 20, and mortised, as at 21, to form asocket for the end of thedasher22. Said dasher is provided near one end'with a plurality oftransverse apertures 23, adapted to register alternately with theaperture 24 infthe but-. ton or cap 25-,at the end of the dasher-stalf.Said button or cap is connected to the front of the enlarged portion 20of the dasherstaff by means of the screw 26, and 27 is a transverse pinadapted to be inserted in the bar 3. The free extremity of the belt orcord 29 is returned through the framework,

butbelow the centrallpartition 10 and above the cross-bar 5, and itsextremity is secured within the opening near the lower handle of go thelever 14 by means of the plug or wedge 31. The receptacle containing themilk can then be placed-upon the base lbeneath the dasher-staff, thedasher placed in-position,

and the machine is ready for operation. 5 It will be seen that a rapidmovement of the'lever 14 backward and forward by means of the handles 15will cause the dasher-stafi 18 to rapidly vibrate through the medium ofthe cord or belt 29, and in so doing the belt will at times become slackand have a tendency to whip, and the upper and lower parts would becometangled and the whole would ride up and down the dasher-staflf 18,tending to raise the same. In order to obviate this difiiculty, I haveprovided the central partition or strip 10, which separates the upperand lower strands of the belt, supporting the upper one and holding downthe lower one, thus preventing the rope and coil 30 from slipping orriding up and down on the dasher-staff 18. The beveled or rounded end 17thereof prevents the corners from cutting said belt.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A device of the class described comprising a pair of standards,transverse parallel cross-bars secured to said standards, and providedwith journals in their forward ends, and a vertical dasher-staff mountedin said journals, a horizontal partition secured between the standardsintermediate the crossbars, said partition extending for some distanceto the rear of the standards, a lever pivoted between its ends to thefree extremity of the partition and a cord or rope, surround ing thedasher-staff, the ends of said rope passing through the standards, oneabove and one below the central portion, and having their extremitiessecured to the lever.

2. A device of the class described comprising supporting memberstransversely-disposed bars secured thereto and provided with bearings,and a vertically-disposed dasherstaif mounted therein, a horizontalpartition disposed between said bars to form therewith, two independentguideways, a lever pivoted to said partition at a point remote from thesupporting members, and a cord or rope, surrounding said dasher-stafif,passing through each guideway and having their free ends secured to saidlever, on either side ofits pivot-point.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixedmy signature in the presence of two witnesses.

FOREST FRANCIS SIMS.

WVitnesses:

L. W. BYERS, D. P. THOMAS.

